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Attorney General Encourages UG Law Students to Prepare Themselves to Develop Guyana

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Published: 05 November 2015

Press Release

November 4, 2015

Attorney General Encourages UG Law Students to Prepare Themselves to Develop Guyana

Sixty four first year law students were presented with tokens at the University of Guyana (UG) Law Department Annual Law Social on Saturday October 31 at the King’s Plaza. The event saw the Class of 2016 welcoming the Class of 2018.

Attorney General Basil Williams, who was charged with delivering the feature address, stated that the event “… represented perpetuity; even as the Class of 2016 proceeds to the Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS), the UG Law programme is being replenished by the first year law students.” He went on to say that the first year law students are embarking on legal studies at a time when “We are witnessing regional disintegration in the field of legal education.”

AG feature address at BHS Annual Graduation & Prize Giving Ceremony

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Published: 30 October 2015

Press Release

October 30, 2015

AG urges BHS Graduates to “seize the day” as Guyana embarks on a new road to development

The Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Legal Affairs Basil Williams yesterday delivered the feature address entitled “Carpe Diem” at the Berbice High School Annual Graduation and Prize Giving Exercise. The senior Berbice secondary school in its 99th year of existence honoured the graduating class of 2015.

Guyana was never blacklisted-U.S. says …slams Guyana Times misrepresentation

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Published: 30 October 2015

October 29, 2015

Guyana Chronicle

THE United States Government(USG) has affirmed that Guyana was never placed on the global Financial Action Task Force (FATF) black and gray lists and has slammed a Guyana Times report as a “wilful mischaracterisation of Washington’s position, created through an out-of-context use of one of its officials’ quotations.” Under a screaming headline, “Guyana remains on FATF blacklist,” the Guyana Times reported earlier this week that the country remains non-compliant despite “premature assurances from Attorney General Basil Williams and U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Bryan Hunt.” However, in an invited comment the U.S. Embassy here said the report contained in the Guyana Times of October 27, 2015, begins from a factually incorrect premise. The embassy affirmed that “the global Financial Action Task Force (FATF) did not include Guyana on its list of “jurisdictions subject to a FATF call to apply counter-measures to protect the international financial system” – the commonly referred to blacklist – in its October 2015 meeting. Nor was Guyana included in the FATF list of “jurisdictions not making sufficient progress” – the commonly referred to dark-grey list. Guyana has never appeared on either list at the FATF level.”

PRESS STATEMENT

THE APNU+AFC GOVERNMENT APPLAUDED BY FATF FOR DOING WITHIN FOUR MONTHS WHAT THE PPP/C GOVERNMENT FAILED TO DO IN 15 YEARS.

The newly minted APNU+AFC Government came in for high praise from both institutions of FATF (Financial Action Task Force); the International Coordinating Review Group (ICRG) and the FATF Plenary, at the recently concluded Meeting in Paris, France.

The ICRG adopted the Assessors’ report of its regional arm, the Americas Region Review group (ARRG) which stated inter alia, that the main development in Guyana is the enactment of the AMLCFT Amendment Act 2015 which became enforceable on July 10th 2015.

The ARRG’S report concluded that “Guyana has demonstrated its commitment to comply with the action plan and is to be commended for having met most of the deadlines.”